TLshell aborts with message "Back end gone"

[Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute)]

On 21/12/2022 16:39, Uwe Siart wrote:
> On my Windows 10 box TLshell (tlmgr GUI) aborts with the message "Back
> end gone". I can't tell since when the problem exists since I routinely
> use tlmgr on the command line. But as a rough guess I would say that it
> still worked one week ago.

See the attached, replicated below —

> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 17:58:10 +0100
> To: <tex-live at tug.org>
> From: Alois Steindl <Alois.Steindl at tuwien.ac.at>
> Subject: Tlmgr suddenly fails
>
>
> Hello,
>
> since yesterday I observe a strange error with TLMgr on a Windows 10
> Notebook:
>
> Whenever I call it, it throws me the error message "Back end gone. Last
> command: version" after a while (~ 5-10 seconds after I start it, before
> I can do anything.)
>
> I already successfully called tlmgr update --self --all  (a self-update
> wasn't necessary)
>
> and update-tlmgr-latest.exe
>
> but the error remains.
>
> As far as I can tell, I didn't install any new software lately.
>
> The error isn't  hurting me, because it is possible to update from the
> command line.
>
> With kind regards
>
> Alois


> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 11:48:56 +0900 (GMT+09:00)
> From: Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>
> To: Alois Steindl <Alois.Steindl at tuwien.ac.at>
> Subject: Re: Tlmgr suddenly fails
>
>
> Hi Alois,
>
> I guess you are talking about the TclTk frontend to tlmgr, since the command line utility does run.
>
> Can you start the GUI from the cmd window and see if there are any strange messages besides what you sent?
>
> Other than that, I guess we have to wait for Siep...
>
> Best
>
> Norbert
>
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> Dec 10, 2022 01:58:31 Alois Steindl <Alois.Steindl at tuwien.ac.at>:
>
> > Hello,
> > 
> > since yesterday I observe a strange error with TLMgr on a Windows 10 Notebook:
> > 
> > Whenever I call it, it throws me the error message "Back end gone. Last command: version" after a while (~ 5-10 seconds after I start it, before I can do anything.)
> > 
> > I already successfully called tlmgr update --self --all  (a self-update wasn't necessary)
> > 
> > and update-tlmgr-latest.exe
> > 
> > but the error remains.
> > 
> > As far as I can tell, I didn't install any new software lately.
> > 
> > The error isn't  hurting me, because it is possible to update from the command line.
> > 
> > With kind regards
> > 
> > Alois
>


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